Vapor-burner.



' BATENTBD MAR. 28,1905.

H. J. MARKS. V

VAPOR BURNER. v

LPPLIouIoN FILED Nov. 25, 1m

Improvements in Vapor-Burners, of which j The simple construction of the torchF herethe following is a clear, full, and exact descripin shown consists oi a small pipe which is bent tion. upon itself, so as to have its nozzle or tip 4,

My invention relates to a torch or pilotwhich is provided with asmall discharge-ori- IO burner to be used in connection with vaporlice 5, (see Fig. 2,) discharging upon or along- 60 burners, the same being a device to maintain side of a portion ot' the pipe which supplies a small tlame suiiicient to keep the vaporizer the fue] to the torch. This keeps the pipe of such burners heated during the time when heated and insures vaporization ot' any fuel the main burner is thrown out of use, so that which may have reached the torch as oil. I I it may be kept heated and in condition for iml have shown the torch as havingthreeapproxi- 65 mediate use as soon as the fuel-supply is mately parallel portions of pipe, the outer or turned on. side portions 2 and 3, an end bend l, and the Other advantages will appear from the folinner tip or nozzle 4. I have also shown a. lowing description. controlling-valve K. The nozzle discharges The object of my invention is to simplify, directly upon the bend 1 and close alongside 70 cheapen, and improve such devices. ot' the parts 2 and 3. This exact shape and My invention will be defined in the claims. disposition of the parts is, however, not essen- The drawings accompanying herewith show tial. Any other form which will enable the my invention embodied in a form now predischarge to heat a snflieient portion ot' the ferred by me. tube to insure vaporization may be used in`V 75 Figurel is an elevation, partially in secstead. I prefer to use with the torch an intion, of a vaporizing-burner having my torch closing hood E. which embraces a portion, at attached, and Fig. Q is an enlarged section of least, ot' the torch and has an opening in each the tip or discharge end of the torch-tube. end, one for the reception ot' the torch-Lube 3o In the `use of vaporizing oil-burners it is and the other for the discharge of the Haine 80 quite generally desirable to be able to turn withinorupon the vaporizer. This becoming y down or `entirely cut oli' the supply of fuel heated radiates heat upon the torehtube,and and yet to maintain the vaporizer heated to therebyvhelps to vaporize the fuel. It also Such a point that it is available toimmediately acts as a-funnel to more certainly direct the vaporize the fuel,and thus to restart the burner llame into or upon the vaporizer. I have used 35 without previous heating up. To do this, i the term vaporizel" to distinguish the dewhat is known as a torch is used, the same vice A, which vaporizes the fuel supplied to consisting ot' a small burner which maintains the burner l, although the torch-tube is as the vapor-izcr heated when the supply of fuel truly a vaporizer upon a smaller scale, but 40 to the burner is cut otl'. l one which is intended to have its burner kept 90 In Fig. 1A represents a vaporizer; M, the in action continuously, while the action of the oil-supply 'tube therefor; B, a burner, that burner B, which is mainly relied upon to heaty shown beingr ot' the type which is used exthe vaporizer A, is intermittent. tensivelyft'or small boilers; C, a mixing-tube; 'lhe discharge-opening 5 in the tip or nozzle D, a side or inclosing wall of the furnace or of the torch is quite small, and such orlces 95 tire-chamber; Il, the gas-supply tube; l, a are very apt to become clogged by the formanozzle discharging therefrom into the mxf tion of deposits of solidiied carbon or bythe ingtube ,and 'l a valve for controlling the Iodgment ot' 'any foreign matter which may gas-supply. These parts may in the main be be in the oil or the pipes leading to the torch. 5 ofanysuitabletype. Atauyeonvenientpoint Because ot' this it is occasionally and some- 100 UNITED STATES HARRY J. MARKS, OF NEW`YORK, N. Y.

VAPOR-BURNER.

Patented March 28, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 785,903, dated March 28, 1905.

Application inea :member z5. 1903. sean No. 182,582.

To all 107mm if muy concern.:

Be it known that I, HARRY J. MARKS, acitizen oi t-he United States, residing at 11 iV est One Hundred and 'Ihirtieth street, NewYork, N. Y., have invented certain new and useful the torch-tube L is attached to the gas or oil supply tube, the point herein shown for such attachment being with the gas-supply tube H between the vaporizer and the dischargenozzle.

times frequently necessary to introduce a line cleaning-wire within this hole and agitate it to clear out the obstruction. As this hole is very minute, being often from one to two hundredths of an inch in diameter,and is, moreover, in the end of a pipe which is away from the operator, it is always aslow and exasperating job to get the wire entered in the hole. To avoid this dilliculty, I place a cleaningwire with one end permanently in this hole and support it in such a way that whenever desired it may be agitated and without any necessity of ever removing it. Being always in place, the -difliculty of entering it in the orifice is avoided. This cleaning-wire G is shown as recurving upon itself and provided with a spring or yielding section g, sullicient to allow the needed reciprocation of the wire. Any other method of support which will permit such reci procation may be adopted. The outer end of the wire is secured to any convenient support-such, for instance, as the pipe H. In Fig. 2 is shown the relative position of the torch-tip and the end of this wire. I have found this little device to be a great convenience and saver both of time and tempel'.

The torch may be made of vcrysmall pipe, one-eighth-inch size having been found large enough for use with good-sized burners, and consequently and by further reason of its simplicity of construction it is very cheap to make. It may therefore without material loss be discarded when vinjured by the heat and replaced by a new one. This may easily be done by the operator and without special tools, as it is only necessary to unscrew the old one and screw in a new one. Although exceedingly simple and cheap in its construction., I have found it to be as eflicient and reliable as any.

It will be observed that in the construction above described I have provided a main vaporizer for the fuel to be supplied to the main burner and a small supplementary torch for giving the initial heating to the main vaporizer and that by my construction the main burner may be more quickly started in action.

It'is evident that many changes in the manner of constructing and combining the parts may be made without changing the principles thereof or departing from my invention.

rhat l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an oil-vaporizing burner in combina-V wall forming an opening into the same, an y oil-sup ply connection for said vaporizer, a va por-conveying pipe extending from said vaporizer an ldischarging into said burner, a seeond vapor-conveying pipe discharging into the opening into said vaporizer and also upon itself, and a valve for closing the vapor-supply to said burner without closing the supply to said second pipe.

3. In an oil-vaporizing burner, in combination. a burner, a vaporizer therefor heated by said burner and having an inner and an outer wall, said inner wall forming a chamber, an oil-supply connection for said vaporizer, a vapor-conveying pipe extending from said vaporizer and terminating in a nozzle discharging into said burner, and a tube supplied from the said vapor-conveyingpipeand bent to discharge upon a portion of itself and discharging into the chamber of said vaporizer.

4. The combination with a discharge-nozzle for oil-vaporizing burners, of a clearing member therefor comprising a wire bent backward or upon itself and having one end lying within the discharge-orilice, the other end having a spring formed therein and lixedly supported.

Signed at New York, N. Y., this 15th day of August, 1903.

HARRY J. MARKS.

VVitne'sses:

EMERSON R. NEwnLL, BEATRICE MIRRIS. 

